Ageing planet: the new demographic timebomb
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/22/ageing-planet-the-new-demographic-timebomb
And in a world facing climate catastrophe and a worrying fall in biodiversity, that is a much better way to address the challenges of ageing populations in some areas, than unfettered population growth that is dangerous for both us and the planet.
“We are in transition across the 21st century and need to adjust to this age-structural transition, rather than fight it,” Harper said. “So that every generation, every cohort, more or less replaces itself.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/22/ageing-planet-the-new-demographic-timebomb
And in a world facing climate catastrophe and a worrying fall in biodiversity, that is a much better way to address the challenges of ageing populations in some areas, than unfettered population growth that is dangerous for both us and the planet.
“We are in transition across the 21st century and need to adjust to this age-structural transition, rather than fight it,” Harper said. “So that every generation, every cohort, more or less replaces itself.”
The Upside of Population Decline
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/benefits-of-declining-human-population-by-adair-turner-2021-06
A pervasive conventional bias assumes that population decline must be a bad thing. But in a world where technology enables us to automate ever more jobs, the far bigger problem is too many potential workers, not too few.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/benefits-of-declining-human-population-by-adair-turner-2021-06
A pervasive conventional bias assumes that population decline must be a bad thing. But in a world where technology enables us to automate ever more jobs, the far bigger problem is too many potential workers, not too few.
Why China’s declining population growth may be good
news
A pervasive conventional bias assumes that population
decline must be a bad thing. But while absolute economic growth is bound to
fall as populations stabilise and then decline, it is income per capita which
matters for prosperity and economic opportunity. And if educated women are
unwilling to produce babies to make economic nationalists feel good, that is a
highly desirable development.
Meanwhile, arguments that stable or falling
populations threaten per capita growth are hugely overstated and, in some
cases, plain wrong.
China wants more babies. Women want the right to
say no.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/23/china-population-decline-women-babies/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/23/china-population-decline-women-babies/
Please hold the panic about world population decline. It’s a non-problem.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/07/please-hold-panic-about-world-population-decline-its-non-problem/
Related:
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2019/02/demographic-shifts-and-future-of-mankind.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/07/please-hold-panic-about-world-population-decline-its-non-problem/
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2019/02/demographic-shifts-and-future-of-mankind.html